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Calm down, Neddilly-diddily-diddily-diddily.... They did their best.... Shoddilly-iddily-iddily-diddly... Gotta be nice.... hostility-ility-bility-dility- Aw, hell, diddly-ding-dong-crap! Can't you morons do anything right?
— Flanders • The Simpsons
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker tries to smother his irritation with forced politeness, stuttering through cheerful nonsense syllables as he reminds himself others did their best. The effort collapses when he explodes into mild profanity and insults. The humour lies in the gap between strained niceness and the anger it barely contains.
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